Editing Jon Postel (section)

===DNS Root Authority test, U.S. response===
[[File:Jon Postel (full frame).jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Postel in 1994 with map of Internet top-level domains]]
On January 28, 1998, Postel, as a test, emailed eight of the twelve operators of Internet's regional [[root nameserver]]s on his own authority and instructed them to reconfigure their servers,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B88ZAgAAQBAJ&dq=jon+postel&pg=PT25|title=Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know|last1=Singer|first1=P. W.|last2=Friedman|first2=Allan|date=2013-12-04|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199364572|language=en}}</ref> changing the root zone server from then [[Leidos|SAIC]] subsidiary [[Network Solutions]]' A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET (198.41.0.4) to IANA's DNSROOT.IANA.ORG (198.32.1.98). The operators complied with Postel's instructions, thus dividing control of Internet naming between the non-government operators with IANA and the 4 remaining U.S. Government roots at [[NASA]], [[United States Department of Defense|DoD]], and [[Ballistics Research Laboratory|BRL]] with NSI. Though usage of the Internet was not interrupted, Postel was threatened by US Presidential science advisor [[Ira Magaziner]] with the statement "You'll never work on the Internet again" and was ordered to end the test,<ref>
*{{cite news |title=Taking the wrong root? |date=February 4, 1998 |first=Sandra |last=Gittlen |publisher=NetworkWorld.com |url=http://www.networkworld.com/news/0204postel.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308200824/http://www.networkworld.com/news/0204postel.html |archive-date=March 8, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}
*{{cite news |title=Surprise IP address system test creates a stir |date=February 9, 1998 |first=Sandra |last=Gittlen |publisher=[[Network World]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hBsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA14 }}
*{{cite news |title=One Man's Attempt to Reroute Internet Traffic |date=February 9, 1998 |first=Kate |last=Gerwig |publisher=InternetWeek.com |url=http://www.internetwk.com/news/news0209-2.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005171457/http://www.internetwk.com/news/news0209-2.htm |archive-date=October 5, 2011 |df=mdy-all}}
*{{cite news |title=It's time for ICANN to go |date=July 2, 2002 |first=Damien |last=Cave |work=Salon.com |url=http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2002/07/02/gilmore/print.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722170621/http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2002/07/02/gilmore/print.html |archive-date=July 22, 2011 |df=mdy-all}}
*{{cite web |title=a comment on Gilmore: ICANN Must Go (good insights) |first=Dave |last=Farber |publisher=Interesting-People|date=July 2, 2002 |url=http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200207/msg00011.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100525113933/http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200207/msg00011.html |archive-date=May 25, 2010 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> which he did.<ref>{{cite news|title=Internet reconfiguration turns out to be rogue test |last=Bridis |first=Ted ([[The Associated Press|AP]]) |date=February 5, 1998 |newspaper=[[The Daily News (Kentucky)]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=q88aAAAAIBAJ&pg=2900,539368&dq=the+clinton+administration+said+wednesday+it+was+confident+a+researcher&hl=en}}</ref>  Within a week, the US [[National Telecommunications and Information Administration|NTIA]] issued ''A proposal to improve technical management of Internet names and addresses'', including changes to authority over the Internet [[DNS root zone]],<ref>{{cite web|title=A proposal to improve technical management of Internet names and addresses. Discussion Draft 1/30/98 |publisher=NTIA.org |date=January 30, 1998 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980207224402/http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/dnsdrft.htm |archive-date=February 7, 1998 |url=http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/dnsdrft.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> which ultimately, and controversially,<ref>{{cite web |title=Wrong turn in cyberspace: Using ICANN to route around the APA and the Constitution |first=A. Michael |last=Froomkin |author-link=Michael Froomkin |publisher= University of Miami School of Law |year=2000 |url=http://osaka.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann-body.htm}} (cited 50 Duke L. J. 17 (2000))</ref> increased U.S. control.<ref>{{cite web|title=Testing times for Net guardians |first=Kenneth |last=Cukier |date=February 16, 1998 |work=Communications Week International |url=http://www.totaltele.com/cwi/199/199news11.html |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990219094444/http://www.totaltele.com/cwi/199/199news11.html |archive-date=February 19, 1999 }}</ref>